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Actually when the first ipod (1st and 2nd) gen came out, it was simply miles ahead of any of the competition. It had more than 128mb of storage data and it fitt
by jauco 18y ago
Actually when the first ipod (1st and 2nd) gen came out, it was simply miles ahead of any of the competition. It had more than 128mb of storage data and it fitted in your pocket (there was one alternative from creative which, well, didn't fit in your pocket)
It came with a horrible mp3 manager until itunes was ported to windows a few years later, but I was okay with that since the ipod was so awesome.
The device was way more important than the software.
- netcan 18y agoI didn't know about the original software. But I was talking about the point when the alternative devices were just as good but with no advantage other then price & a software disadvantage.
- altano 18y agoNow that's just silly. You clearly didn't use both the 1st generation iPod and its competitors. I fiddled around with the Creative Jukebox or whatever it was called before buying the first iPod: the forward next buttons barely worked, the LCD could barely fit the name of a single track on the screen, and the entire UI was barely responsive. The click wheel for scrolling, the large LCD, the great battery life, the incredible form factor... the iPod was 5 years ahead of the competitors. There were the Rios which were well made, but that was a different league... they were more akin to the shuffle. And to top it all off, I was using Windows at the time, so it was at a software disadvantage. I had to use some hacky 3rd party, unsupported software to even sync the thing.